Ketima:


Guys guys!!! This ain't necessary you know. I was trying to pass it but couldn't. Just say let me drop some reply. We don't need to be attacking each other or feel we are above anyone here. Again for the fact that you got 3 and she got 1 doesn't mean the other is better off. No. So lets stop all this I pass my neighbour here and focus on what we are here for. To help each other navigate the rigorous nature of Canadian study visa route. This process isn't easy at all. It can be mentally draining.

Lets learn to tolerate one another even when the other person says hurtful words. It can be hard to hold back but then, we are all here to help. Even the Canada you're referring to, is not this one tax is killing everybody? You will give black man, Asian man, white man, aboriginal, American man 100$, he will be thanking you and jumping up like you saved him from huge thing. A Canada where most people are living more or less living on mortgage. Yes is far better than Nigeria a million times but then.

So please let's be calming down and help each other get through their visa process.

Thank you all.

BoluwajiPieters:


I understand you now. Taking time to draft a cold mail is more important than sending something close to a generic mail. I've gotten a 40%+ response rate from my mails so far. Not positive ones but admixture of 'I am not taking any trainees' to 'You don't have the skills I need for this project' to a conversation that broke down on funding rate (the PI wanted a PhD student while I'm going for Msc). I'm sure you didn't get responses from everyone you mailed too. I'm assuming you sent loads of mail before you got your breakthrough moments. Persistence, learning, work, timing, LUCK, and other things come to play.

BoluwajiPieters:


I think it's implied from your original message backing Gidigraft that something could be wrong with the mails the person has been sending. I'm not here to argue what's right or wrong as I'm currently sending mails out myself. In the end, enlightenment is key.

If the original poster can ask people to review his/her mail, that'd be nice. I've had people review most of the mails I've sent and I've gotten green light from PhD students and postdoc to hit the send button but I don't get responses from the PI I send those mails to. Like I said, I feel it's implied meaning based on your response supporting Gidigraft and Quinex tried to give a contrasting yet plausible explanation as to what could be happening.

BoluwajiPieters:


It's possible to have a strong grasp of a PI's work, have relevant experience and skills, mention their interesting papers, attach a research proposal and still not get a response from the person. That's why people have to send lots and lots of mails before making headway. Silence to a cold mail is not dependent on the quality of the mail alone. There's the PI factor too. Some don't even get to see your mail until you send a reminder as the mail might be buried in the tons of mail in their mailbox. Many factors contribute to the silence or rejections and it's not entirely on the quality of the mail like you've opined.

amila20042001:
The tone of your message says so much about your personality.
Disabuse your mind that someone is here to attack you, free yourself from hate.
You can go back to where gigdraft made the comment and start reading, this time read slowly for better understanding.
One love!!!

amila20042001:
Why are you guys in this thussle. These things are not cast on stone.

1st scenario : An applicant may send a very good cold email yet a professor who doesn't have funding may ignore the mail while another may respond that he doesn't have space for any student at the moment.

2nd scenario : An applicant may send not very good cold email to a professor who doesn't have need for a student, yet gets a response from the professor that he doesn't have any need for a student at the moment.

3rd Scenario : An applicant sends not very good cold email to a professor who has need for a student, but because the email is incoherent the professor may ignore the mail

So it actually could go either way.
So saying he didn't get response from the profs solely because his cold mails are not very good is a fallacy

Quinex2:
All right. Good luck in deceiving yourself.

BoluwajiPieters:


I don't think she's entirely wrong. Some people I've written to didn't bother to get back to me while some were nice enough to acknowledge my interests and academic achievements but mentioned that there's no space in their research group. A PI mentioned on Twitter that she doesn't pay attention to graduate inquiries from students when her lab is full as she cannot reply everyone that asks for an Msc/PhD position in her lab.

Quinex2:
Sorry, I wasn't attacking him. Only stated the obvious.

I tell you you're wrong to assume professors aren't replying emails only because it's not good enough.

No matter how well crafted your email is, if a professor doesn't need a student, he/she won't reply you. I hunted for scholarship for so long before I secured one so I'm not ignorant of what I'm saying.

In fact, the email that got me a potential supervisor wasn't one of my best. Yea, I'll encourage the other poster to improve his emails if need be. But that you are not getting the desired reply doesn't imply your emails are bad.

Quinex2:
It's 100% possible, considering how these profs hardly reply to cold emails. I'm a PhD student abroad so I know what I'm saying. Plus, I never said every professor indicates if he/she is actively recruiting or not. If you check my comment, you'd see I used "some".

I didn't quote you in error. I was only trying to let you know it isn't accurate to assume professors aren't replying his email because it lacked "good content". While that may be true, it's not the case more than 50% of the time.

Iamgrac:
Good day everyone, it's been almost four months since I applied for my visa and since then there hasn't been a single word from IRCC.
I've sent them thousands of mail but I still get generic responses, please what else can I do

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